Thursday, September 30, 2004
Monday, September 20, 2004
eMusic Relaunch
eMusic, a client of AgentArts', since 2001, is going to be relaunching their site. With the relaunch they have completely rewritten the backend and moved to NYC from San Diego.
This means two things, there will be a bunch of people in San Diego looking for work and AgentArts are no longer going to be offering recommendations and personalisation technology to eMusic. Its been an interesting three years and I'm greatly impressed we've been able to run the service from Australia with such a minimal staff. What I won't miss is a) calls at 4am to fix issues and b) having been on call for 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 2.5 years.
I can finally take a holiday and not need to take the laptop/mobile/inet access.
eMusic, a client of AgentArts', since 2001, is going to be relaunching their site. With the relaunch they have completely rewritten the backend and moved to NYC from San Diego.
This means two things, there will be a bunch of people in San Diego looking for work and AgentArts are no longer going to be offering recommendations and personalisation technology to eMusic. Its been an interesting three years and I'm greatly impressed we've been able to run the service from Australia with such a minimal staff. What I won't miss is a) calls at 4am to fix issues and b) having been on call for 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 2.5 years.
I can finally take a holiday and not need to take the laptop/mobile/inet access.
Friday, September 17, 2004
Oratory
This is one of my fave quotes from a TV Series. It works really well and I should try and state more arguments/product sales in this way.
"You want the benefits of free trade? Food is cheaper. Food is cheaper, clothes are cheaper, steel is cheaper, cars are cheaper, phone service is cheaper. You feel me building a rhythm here? Thatâ??s â??cause Iâ??m a speechwriter and I know how to make a point. It lowers prices, it raises income. You see what I did with â??lowersâ?? and â??raisesâ?? there? Itâ??s called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites and now you end with the one thatâ??s not like the others. Ready? Free trade stops wars. And thatâ??s it. Free trade stops wars! And we figure out a way to fix the rest! One world, one peace. Iâ??m sure Iâ??ve seen that on a sign somewhere."
- Toby Ziegler, The West Wing 2x16 Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail
This is one of my fave quotes from a TV Series. It works really well and I should try and state more arguments/product sales in this way.
"You want the benefits of free trade? Food is cheaper. Food is cheaper, clothes are cheaper, steel is cheaper, cars are cheaper, phone service is cheaper. You feel me building a rhythm here? Thatâ??s â??cause Iâ??m a speechwriter and I know how to make a point. It lowers prices, it raises income. You see what I did with â??lowersâ?? and â??raisesâ?? there? Itâ??s called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites and now you end with the one thatâ??s not like the others. Ready? Free trade stops wars. And thatâ??s it. Free trade stops wars! And we figure out a way to fix the rest! One world, one peace. Iâ??m sure Iâ??ve seen that on a sign somewhere."
- Toby Ziegler, The West Wing 2x16 Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Testing ....1...2...3
Yeah....we are back online after a week without Internet at home after a very big move.
So Suze, Jaz, Osky and I are all in our humble abode which is very very nice. The most bestest thing is that in putting the bed back together it has somehow got more comfortable....weird but true. So sleep here is much nicer.
We are directly opposite a park with a playground and football oval, we even have a secret path right next door to our house. With the garden, the secret path, the playground and everything else...the kids are enjoying themselves immensely. But....Oskar is now waking at 5-5:30 again so Suze and I have not had a night in bed after 9:30pm for 2 weeks which is just mind blowing!! Added to which I haven't been to teh gym in 2 weeks so things have to change.
Otherwise, life goes on very nicely. I'm working on some very interesting bluetooth stuff for a large retailer here in Australia as well as a large/massive shopping center complex owner.
Now that we have moved, I'm planning on a few projects, most of which involve some for of PIC micro controller hardware soldering type of thing with a RF interface to a computer or the use of a wireless network. I'm very interested in ye olde distributed agent / adaptive device type thingo. So the summer will no doubt see me hunched over a soldering iron or coding some micro code.
Thoughts are starting to converge on "The Next Thing".. which I would like to involve...self organising systems, agents, micro controller based physical computing, adpative systems, real world observational computing, immersive environments, consumers, bluetooth, mobile phones and server side technology. Huh... basically making smart devices which are used by lots and lots of people and immerse themselves in the everyday environment and communicate among themselves.
Yeah....we are back online after a week without Internet at home after a very big move.
So Suze, Jaz, Osky and I are all in our humble abode which is very very nice. The most bestest thing is that in putting the bed back together it has somehow got more comfortable....weird but true. So sleep here is much nicer.
We are directly opposite a park with a playground and football oval, we even have a secret path right next door to our house. With the garden, the secret path, the playground and everything else...the kids are enjoying themselves immensely. But....Oskar is now waking at 5-5:30 again so Suze and I have not had a night in bed after 9:30pm for 2 weeks which is just mind blowing!! Added to which I haven't been to teh gym in 2 weeks so things have to change.
Otherwise, life goes on very nicely. I'm working on some very interesting bluetooth stuff for a large retailer here in Australia as well as a large/massive shopping center complex owner.
Now that we have moved, I'm planning on a few projects, most of which involve some for of PIC micro controller hardware soldering type of thing with a RF interface to a computer or the use of a wireless network. I'm very interested in ye olde distributed agent / adaptive device type thingo. So the summer will no doubt see me hunched over a soldering iron or coding some micro code.
Thoughts are starting to converge on "The Next Thing".. which I would like to involve...self organising systems, agents, micro controller based physical computing, adpative systems, real world observational computing, immersive environments, consumers, bluetooth, mobile phones and server side technology. Huh... basically making smart devices which are used by lots and lots of people and immerse themselves in the everyday environment and communicate among themselves.
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